(CNN) It's funny what four years of a president who carries a healthy disregard for the Constitution, and a violent insurrection at the US Capitol, can do for people's knowledge of our democratic institutions! People were also more aware of the rights afforded to them by the Constitution than in the past. Asked to name the five freedoms conferred by the First Amendment, 3 in 4 named the freedom of speech, while more than half (56%) were able to come up with freedom of religion, and 50% exactly named freedom of the press. (Fewer than 3 in 10 could name the freedom to assemble or the freedom to petition.) Now, before we break out the champagne, it's not exactly a huge victory that just half of Americans get that freedom of the press is right there in the First Amendment of the Constitution.

Source: CNN September 16, 2021 22:30 UTC